Nestle raises to DLT Challenge, expands IBM Food Trust Blockchain Tool To Coffee
Helena Šagud
Adoption
4 years ago
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Global implementation of blockchain technology in the food industry continues to grow as the world’s biggest food and beverage company, Nestlé, doesn’t put its blockchain efforts on hold.
On April 6, Nestlé announced that the company is expanding its long-running IBM Food Trust blockchain technology platform to its coffee brand Zoégas.
Getting all necessary coffee info from blockchain database
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With this new implementation, Zoégas coffee lovers will now be able to trace select coffee editions back to different origins in Brazil, Rwanda and Colombia, the company said. Additionally, consumers will be able to access some relevant coffee information including time and location of harvest, roasting period, transaction certificate for the specific shipments, farmers, via scanning the QR code on the packaging.
Nestlé partners with the Rainforest Alliance on development
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According to the announcement, Zoégas' integration with the IBM Food Trust platform became possible after Nestlé partnered with a trusted third party, the Rainforest Alliance.
Representing a non-governmental organization focusing on sustainable forestry and agriculture, the Rainforest Alliance will be responsible for providing reliable data that will allow users to follow the coffee journey to the Zoégas factory in Helsingborg. Under the partnership, the organization will purportedly provide its own certification information about the coffee and record the data directly on the IBM Food Trust blockchain platform.
MORE: https://cointelegraph.com/news/nestle-rises-to-dlt-challenge-expands-ibm-food-trust-blockchain-tool-to-coffee
On April 6, Nestlé announced that the company is expanding its long-running IBM Food Trust blockchain technology platform to its coffee brand Zoégas.
Getting all necessary coffee info from blockchain database
.....................
With this new implementation, Zoégas coffee lovers will now be able to trace select coffee editions back to different origins in Brazil, Rwanda and Colombia, the company said. Additionally, consumers will be able to access some relevant coffee information including time and location of harvest, roasting period, transaction certificate for the specific shipments, farmers, via scanning the QR code on the packaging.
Nestlé partners with the Rainforest Alliance on development
.....................
According to the announcement, Zoégas' integration with the IBM Food Trust platform became possible after Nestlé partnered with a trusted third party, the Rainforest Alliance.
Representing a non-governmental organization focusing on sustainable forestry and agriculture, the Rainforest Alliance will be responsible for providing reliable data that will allow users to follow the coffee journey to the Zoégas factory in Helsingborg. Under the partnership, the organization will purportedly provide its own certification information about the coffee and record the data directly on the IBM Food Trust blockchain platform.
MORE: https://cointelegraph.com/news/nestle-rises-to-dlt-challenge-expands-ibm-food-trust-blockchain-tool-to-coffee
- Food industry
- Blockchain adoption
- DLT
- Nestle
- Coffee
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